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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2020-7220 json

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release in HashiCorp Vault

published 2020-01-23 6 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-vault-2020-7220 , EUVD-2021-1456 , GHSA-9vh5-r4qw-v3vv , GO-2022-0816

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 0.11.0 through 1.3.1 fails, in certain circumstances, to revoke dynamic secrets for a mount in a deleted namespace. Fixed in 1.3.2.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.3.2
  • bitnami vault 1.3.2
  • hashicorp vault 1.3.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-7220 updated cvss 7.5

vault: Vault Enterprise’s Dynamic Secrets May Persist After Namespace Deletion

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-installer, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, odf4/odr-rhel8-operator, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
>=0.11.0, <1.3.2
1.3.2
bitnami vault
>=0.11.0, <1.3.2
1.3.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

References

Sources

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